The Osceola times., 1887-09-17
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.

| Dickey bris are beginning 10 chatter
about coming Doodle sensation in Little
ROek and Pulaski County. 1t is whispered
that too much money has been spent there
in elections. ..- .--. -rs H.r. vrrs . ~
Farmers In various portions OF the State
have been using paris green pretty free
ly aud successfully in destroying the cot.
ton worms, but they have not found any
thing vet TO head OF the boil worm.
Govsrnmen, land in Madison County rs
rapidly being taken up by homesteaders
and pre- emption claimants. These lands
are admirably suited for the cultivation of
cotton. corn aud fruits.
Some of the finest apples in America are
grown from the seed in Benton County. A
/ magnificent collection OF them was made
for exhibit before the American Pomolog-
cal Society in Boston. sE
| The Fort Smith Natural Gas Company
has been organized, with q capital stock
of $1,000.
A cotton mill is soon TO be erected at
Brinkley, with capital OF $4,000, for the
manufacture OF yarns, thread, cord, rope,
etc. .f.
Esquire Moore, "a respected citizen of Cross
County. was shot by an assassin in am.
busb while on his way home from a neigh
boring village, and instantly killed. A
young man whom the Squire had fined
for some misdemeHnor a few days before
is thought 10 have committed the crime.
The Arkansas Industrial Company have
begun work upon the Union Compress
Company's buildings, in the eastern sub
! urbs OF Little Rock. The main building
| win b. i10x780 feet, and will require 3,250,-
001 brick and ., nal feet C: lumber for
its completion.
\ negro went to little grocery store
Of a German lady in Little Rock few
nights ago and purchased a -four sack full
Of goods. He was in the act of rushing
out without paying for the goods when
another colored man. "Chicken Jackson"
happened in and compelled him to lay
aside the booty and skip.
The October exhibition at Little Rock
will embrace exhibits from seventy.hve
counties.
Argenta is a healthy place. \ colored
wonian by the name OF Trice, who died
there a saort time since, lived to the ripe
old age of one hundred and thirteen years.
I, is said that cotton is not being market
ed as freely this season as 1t should and
that the reason Is the farmers are holding
it up for better prices. This may be true,
but it is also true that the general crop OF
ths HSeGS Staplt IN iHls STATE IL Silort tul-
year. There is only one section that does
not report a shortcrop.
Jos. W. Davis, the railroad man who
was recently tried in the Federal Court at
Little Rock on charge OF robbing freight
cars on the Missouri, Kansas n Texas
road, between Muskogee. I. T.. and Deni.
son, Tex, was convicted on six couuts,
which entities him TO six years in the
penitentiary, il the court feels disposed to
give him the limit OF the law.
Louis Pewe, a twelve-year-od boy, was
found dead at the Union Depot in Little
Rock few mornings since by g. II. Gov.
lev, an Iron Mountain railroad r-sealer.
The boy lived with his father and step
mother in that city, and was In the habit
of running away from home. Ii is sup
posed he fell asleep on one of the switch
tracks in the yard II is not known at
what hour or by what train he was killed.
Joe Merritt, of Faulkner County, charged
with murder, was examined q few days
since in Little Rock before Judge Jos. W.
Martin and admit I'd to bail in the sum OF
$500. Gu the night Of July 30 he shot
and killed Riley Evans. in tho lower part
of Faulkner County. He at the same time
shot and seriously wounded a brother TO
the man killed. He was denied bail by the
, examining Justice
The gold badges, which were adopted by
the State Press Association at its last
meeting, are now ready for delivery by
tae maker, Mr. J. V. Zimmerman, of Little
Rock. The design Is n neat and appro
pirate one. a quill crossed by the letters,
A. Z. A., and ii has been tastefully execut-
ell under the immediat care of Mr..
, Frank Jefferson Members of the assocla-
: tion will be promptly served with them by
sending To Mr.. Zimmerman.
Governor Hughes has been invited TO
; the dinner 10 be given at Philadelphia, on
the l7th, by the Hiberan Society in honor
, OF the centennial anniversary of the
! promulgatiol VI the Federal Constitution.
President Cleveland has accspted an in
vitation to be present at the meeting On
the i3.h there will be grand procession
of United States officials in which the
Governors of the States are expecte q to
appear.
A double killing is reported from Lafay.
cite County. Two lrishmen got into Il
drunken quarrel al Lees store, on Long
Branch, when one of them drew u knife
, and stabbed the other, inflictng a wound
, which resulted in death next day. A citi.
zen by the name Of Woods undertook to ar.
, rest the murderer aud hold him until an
officer could be found. The murderer then
attacked Woods, who killed him instantly
? with a shotgun. Woods surrendered to u
deputy sheriff aud was acquitted.
Governor Hughes has pard oned Ben Pet
, tis, convicted in January, 1882, in White
County. aud sentenced to ten years in the
. ponitentary for robbery and assault with
intent 10 Kill. It appeared from the state
ment of the circuit judge that fetts
, should have been convicted on but one Of
fense, aud on that he should be parduned.
Pettis was but sixteen Years old when the
/ oifense was committed, has behaved well
: since Incarceration, and in view of these
facts, many citizens asked for the pardon,
! which was granted.
, Sheriff w. h. Briggs and County
Treasurer J. W. Bishop, of Howard
County, this state, recently applied TO
Governor Hughes for permission TO convey
: back to Howard County the convict
D George Anderson, arrested few days
previous in Argenta. The warrants found
on Anderson when arrested have been
! identified by Treasurer Bishop as part OF
the fund in his possession at the time the
safe in his office was blown open IL Is
thought that two other men now under ar
rest can be convicted with Anderson's
. testimony. -
I The cotton fields are full of pickers.
E DR.. Robinson received a touching letter
! from the widow Of General Slack, in which
she expresses her regret, on account OF
, bodily affection, at being unable 70 attend
the recent reunion and witness the unvail-
ing of the monument to her llustrious
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